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Images from the Neocerebellum
The Mad Hatter of the contemporary Canadian graphic arts, wood engraver George A. Walker considers the passage of time as it unfolds from the pages of his personal dream diary.
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168 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 2007
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July 15, 2013
We are all bothered by items from our subconscious, be they thoughts, desires or even actions that we question later. Dreams are a big part of our subconscious. And if we choose to think about our dreams or even talk about them, we find that we are finding truths about ourselves. But do our words - written or spoken - do enough to explain our dreams or does a visual record need to be done to describe the images we see in our sleep. That is the type of thought one gets when one looks at George A. Walker's Images from the Neocerebellum.
Page 7 Introduction
Dreams are the visions that define us, the sum total of our varied personal life experiences. To ignore the vivid distillate of our subconscious is to practise a form of wilful blindness that will easily prevent us from understanding ourselves at all clearly. The images I have selected for this book are wood engravings inspired by my own dreams. The engravings are part of a much larger collection of dream images I have compiled over the years from the dream diaries I first encountered in Dr. John M. MacGregor's 'Inscape Psychology' courses at the Ontario College of Art in the 1980s. An essential part of the course requirement insisted each student keep a daily dream diary. The methodology was simple enough: set an alarm clock in the evening primed to startle you to sudden wakefulness in the morning, then commit to paper immediately whatever fragments could be salvaged fro the night past, before the fanciful thoughts dissipated in the bright glare of dawn. I became obsessed with the practice and continue to record my dreams daily, twenty-five years further on ... often using the nineteenth-century medium of wood engraving, pushing sharpened burins into the planed surface of endgrain Canadian maple.
While the subject sounds intense, Walker's manner simplifies the concept. His artwork may be detailed but understanding them is easy.
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Page 7 Introduction
Dreams are the visions that define us, the sum total of our varied personal life experiences. To ignore the vivid distillate of our subconscious is to practise a form of wilful blindness that will easily prevent us from understanding ourselves at all clearly. The images I have selected for this book are wood engravings inspired by my own dreams. The engravings are part of a much larger collection of dream images I have compiled over the years from the dream diaries I first encountered in Dr. John M. MacGregor's 'Inscape Psychology' courses at the Ontario College of Art in the 1980s. An essential part of the course requirement insisted each student keep a daily dream diary. The methodology was simple enough: set an alarm clock in the evening primed to startle you to sudden wakefulness in the morning, then commit to paper immediately whatever fragments could be salvaged fro the night past, before the fanciful thoughts dissipated in the bright glare of dawn. I became obsessed with the practice and continue to record my dreams daily, twenty-five years further on ... often using the nineteenth-century medium of wood engraving, pushing sharpened burins into the planed surface of endgrain Canadian maple.
While the subject sounds intense, Walker's manner simplifies the concept. His artwork may be detailed but understanding them is easy.
Link to my complete review
August 20, 2010
Awesome!! As with all of this authors books....the visuals speak for themselves. Excellent book !!
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